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Much of his magic was achieved in the years 1961-66, newly illuminated in Martin Scorsese's No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, the 3-hr. 29-min. documentary that hits DVD racks Sept. 20 and will be shown on PBS a week later. First Dylan reconfigured the folk song into a political statement as personal as it was universal, writing instant anthems like Blowin' in the Wind and The Times They Are A-Changin'. Then he amped up his surreal postromantic ballads and became a rock star...
...genes too." I was one of the fortunate ones who was warned in advance. There are millions who do not get this chance. Pradeep B. Chinai Bombay I fell asleep at night after reading your fitness articles, and the next morning I bolted out of bed for a 30-min. walk. I had not done that for months. Thanks! Gail Kaplan Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S. I have some svelte friends who could learn a lot from your article "Can You Be Fat & Healthy?" Unfortunately, they are all downtown drinking and chain smoking. Meanwhile, I am enjoying a quiet evening...
...Numbers 6 hr. 13 min. Time it took Hilary Lister, a 33-year-old Briton paralyzed below the neck, to sail across the English Channel, sucking and blowing into straws to steer the vessel...
...Senior Resource Center in Orlando was the first in the U.S. to be licensed to use the DriveABLE method. Aided by touch-screen computers, drivers are evaluated on judgment, decision making and attention shifting. Next, on a 40-min. road test--always the same course--a driving instructor marks each error a driver makes. A computer program then separates normal errors, like forgetting to signal a turn, from abnormal ones, like stopping at a green light. At the Orlando center, about 70% of those tested so far--many of them referred because of Alzheimer's--have failed. About 20% have...
...Elliott Del Borgo's Aboriginal Rituals. In an art room, eighth-graders are shaping clay vessels to be baked in the school kiln. Down the hall, students are dabbing acrylic paints on canvas to create vivid still lifes à la Vincent van Gogh. At 10:49, when the 82-min. arts period ends, kids of all sizes, colors and sartorial stripes pour out of classrooms, jostling and joking, filling the hallway with the buzz of pubescent energy. Then it's off to language arts, math, social studies and the array of other subjects offered at this sprawling arena for adolescents...